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Showing posts with label IMMIGRATION. Show all posts
Showing posts with label IMMIGRATION. Show all posts

Saturday, November 22, 2014

CAN WE GOVERN OURSELVES?



The most recent immigration bill to pass the United States Senate is 1198 pages long in PDF fomat.

1198 pages!

HERE are the hot-linked subtitles for various sections of the immigration bill S.744.ES. You have to see that list to believe it!

This is what we're paying our elected public servants to do? See their salaries HERE.

Congress Critters today make famous sufferers of hypergraphia pale in comparison.

Friday, June 21, 2013

IMMIGRATION TRUTH

I know several immigrants — legal and illegal — who are wonderful people of excellent character and a laudable work ethic. You likely can make the same observation about immigrants whom you encounter.

However, the chilling video below should make us realize that political activism appearing humanitarian and socially just in the short term may well be something else entirely in the long term. The speaker, immigration activist Eliseo Medina, has connections with the SEIU, the Communist Party USA, and the Democratic Socialist Party:


Some text from the video:
So I think there’s two things that matter for the progressive community. Number one, if we are to expand this electorate to win, the progressive community needs to solidly be on the side of immigrants, that we’ll expand and solidify the progressive coalition for the future…

When you are in the middle of a fight for your life you will remember who was there with you. And immigrants count on progressives to be able to do that.

Number two. “We reform the immigration laws, it puts 12 million people on the path to citizenship and eventually voters”. Can you imagine if we have, even the same ratio, two out of three? If we have eight million new voters who care about …… and will be voting. We will be creating a governing coalition for the long term, not just for an election cycle…
How many Congress critters are aware of the above? How many Congress critters CARE?

Also see The American Birdfeeder, which draws the perfect analogy.

Yes, we need immigration reform. But what KIND of immigration reform?

Monday, April 15, 2013

THE BIZARRE U.S. TAX CODE

As you file your 2012 tax return, remember the mind-boggling information below (hat tip to Asylum Watch, citing this source):


As Asylum Watch points out:
US tax laws allow illegal immigrants to claim tax credits for children who DO NOT LIVE in America.
To the tune of $4.2 billion a year.

Meanwhile, Tax Freedom Day 2013 is April 18, five days later than Tax Freedom Day 2012. Furthermore:
Americans will spend more on taxes than they will on food, housing, and clothing combined in 2013.
More information HERE.

Sunday, February 24, 2013

LANGUAGE AS BELLWETHER?

As a teacher for over forty years, I have taught many English-as-second-language students from all regions of the world.  Most of these students work very hard.  But one has more than 10% of the class with limited English, the native-English speakers in the class get shorter shrift.   Therefore, this February 24, 2013 article in the Daily Mail (UK) gave me pause:
Gladstone Primary is believed to be the first in Britain where every single one of its pupils does not speak English as a first language, but more and more pupils across the country are now from foreign backgrounds.

In a 2012 census of 1,600 schools, it was found English-speaking children are now in a minority, with the figures particularly startling in the 14 inner London boroughs, where there were 98,000 non-native English speakers compared to 78,000 who could list the language as their number one.

Nationwide, there were 97 schools where the number of pupils speaking English as a mother tongue was fewer than one in 20 of the school population.

After London, Birmingham had the highest concentration of 'foreign' pupils, followed by Bradford and then Leicester.

Punjabi was the most widely-spoken first language.
Punjabi is one of the primary languages of Pakistan.

Also from the article:
Peterborough is one of Britain's prime immigration hotspots and just down the road, another school, Beeches Primary, can tell a similar multi-cultural story.

Of its 592 pupils, there are 23 different native languages, with only 24 having English as a primary tongue.

Tim Smith, the headteacher, said Britain's ever-changing society meant more than 150 pupils leave and join every year, as families, especially from eastern Europe, move away from the school's catchment area as and when they get offered bigger accommodation.

The Tory MP for the city, Stewart Jackson, said Peterborough would not be able to cope with a fresh influx of people and urged the city council to reconsider proposals to accept large numbers of families being moved from London due to the government's housing benefits cap.

But Mr Parker said: 'Britain has always been a country of immigration. You only have to watch Who Do You Think You Are on TV to see how many famous people have their origins away from the British Isles.

'Our pupils will grow up wanting to play cricket for England...and support England and Pakistan.'
The UK is undergoing a major shift in demographics, and Muslims are a huge factor therein. What will the UK be like in ten years?

Monday, February 18, 2013

CULTURAL SENSITIVITY TRAINING AT THE USDA

On our tax dime, of course.

According to Judicial Watch, dated February 14, 2013:
Videos Reveal Indoctrination Program Requiring USDA Staffers to Bang on Tables, Chant, “The pilgrims were illegal aliens”

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch today released previously unseen USDA videos revealing a compulsory “Cultural Sensitivity Training” program requiring USDA employees to bang on tables, chanting in unison “The pilgrims were illegal aliens” while being instructed to no longer use the word “minorities,” but to replace it with “emerging majorities.”...

The sensitivity training sessions, described as “a huge expense” by diversity awareness trainer and self-described “citizen of the world” Samuel Betances, were held on USDA premises. The diversity event is apparently part of what USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack described in a memo sent to all agency employees as a “new era of Civil Rights” and “a broader effort towards cultural transformation at USDA.” In 2011 and 2012, the USDA paid Betances and his firm nearly $200,000 for their part in the “cultural transformation” program.
Video clip:


More video clips HERE.

Monday, June 18, 2012

OBAMA IS FISHING FOR VOTES


And undermining the integrity of the ballot box at the same time!

With a hat tip to Brooke of PaleoCon Command Center:

Sunday, October 24, 2010

ENFRANCHISING NONCITIZENS?

Such is a proposal is on the November 2 ballot in Portland, Maine:
...Portland residents will vote Nov. 2 on a proposal to give legal residents who are not U.S. citizens the right to vote in local elections, joining places like San Francisco and Chicago that have already loosened the rules or are considering it....

[...]

Opponents of the measure say immigrants already have an avenue to cast ballots — by becoming citizens. Allowing noncitizens to vote dilutes the meaning of citizenship, they say, adding that it could lead to fraud and unfairly sway elections....
Back in 2009, Atlas Shrugs posted the following:
Any shot for Americans to take back this country from the hard left in 2010/2012 is looking increasingly dim ....

Obama Justice Department Decision Will Allow Non-Citizens to Register to Vote in Georgia

Decision Bars Georgia From Continuing Voter Verification Process

Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel issued the following statement following the U.S. Department of Justice’s denial of preclearance of Georgia’s voter verification process
Atlanta - “The decision by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to deny preclearance of Georgia’s already implemented citizenship verification process shows a shocking disregard for the integrity of our elections. With this decision, DOJ has now barred Georgia from continuing the citizenship verification program that DOJ lawyers helped to craft. DOJ’s decision also nullifies the orders of two federal courts directing Georgia to implement the procedure for the 2008 general election. The decision comes seven months after Georgia requested an expedited review of the preclearance submission.

“DOJ has thrown open the door for activist organizations such as ACORN to register non-citizens to vote in Georgia’s elections, and the state has no ability to verify an applicant’s citizenship status or whether the individual even exists. DOJ completely disregarded Georgia’s obvious and direct interest in preventing non-citizens from voting...
And we have elections in less than two weeks.

Just how corrupted is our election process?

Sunday, May 09, 2010

L.A. TEACHER CALLS FOR MEXICAN REVOLT IN THE U.S.

Note the ranting about the "global struggle against imperialism and capitalism." Much more leftist ranting below from Sanchee High School's history teacher Ron Gochez, paid on the taxpayers' dime:



The above consumer of taxpayer dollars spoke at the UCLA La Raza rally.

UPDATE (RELIAPUNDIT) FROM DONALD DOUGLAS/AMERICAN POWER:
Ron Gochez, Anti-Semitic Social Justice Teacher and Reconquista Activist, Connects With Underage Student Hotties on MySpace

There's
a little buzz tonight surrounding a three year-old protest video featuring Los Angeles revolutionary/reconquista activist Ron Gochez -- who's listed as a Social Studies Teacher in the School of Public Service and Social Justice at Los Angeles' Santee High School.

Here's this from
Gochez's speech at UCLA in 2007:
We are revolutionary Mexican organization here. We understand that this is not just about Mexico. It’s about a global struggle against imperialism and capitalism… At the forefront of this revolutionary movement is La Raza. We will no longer fall for these lies called borders. We see America as a northern front of a revolutionary movement… Our enemy is capitalism and imperialism.
Well, we find more on Ron Gochez with a little digging.
USE THIS LINK TO FIND OUT MORE. NOW!

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

MOHAMMED BARY ENTERED US ILLEGALLY

First, take a look at the video available here, which shows one of Rifqa Bary's enemies named Mohammed Lufti making accusations against her defenders as wanting to "kidnap" her, which is likely a new blame-game tactic of these Islamists.

But now, here's the main story about the abusive father of the teenage apostate from Islam who converted to Christianity: the father apparently entered the United States illegally through Mexico, and lost 2 attempts to gain amnesty. In fact, he never did try to get medical treatment for Rifqa. This could explain why he dissolved his jewelry business, as he probably feared his illegal status would be found out more easily while going after Rifqa. I wonder if a case could be made that Bary can be fined for running a business without the proper status to do so, and those who bought from him should try and get their money back.

As of now, it appears that Rifqa will have to apply for special asylum. And I think we'd all be a lot more comfortable if Florida governor Charlie Crist were to intervene, so again, here's the contact info:

Governor Charlie Crist's office: Phone: (850) 488-4441,
(850) 488-7146
Fax: (850) 487-0801
Email: Charlie.Crist@MyFlorida.com

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

LATEST ON RIFQA BARY CASE: BAD AND GOOD NEWS?

First, here's the rotten news. The judge has decided that Rifqa can be sent back to Ohio, where the authorities have greased the wheels to return her to her abusive family to appease the alter of political correctness.

However, the judge did throw one wrinkle into the mix:
Before the girl gets sent back, the judge says he needs immigration papers proving her status in the U.S. and proof from the state of Florida that she can continue her virtual schooling and receive credit in Ohio.
Indeed, as the Jawa Report notes, the parents and their lawyers have refused at least five times to provide immigration documents. It appears they may be in the US illegally, and managed to get a visa to enter originally by using Rifqa eye injury, something I hadn't fully taken notice of before, to get treatment but overstayed their visa. So there may be more here than meets the eye, and another thing: if they're in the US illegally, it means they were making money off of people in the jewelry business without the proper license.

Update: here's more from Atlas Shrugs on the court hearing. You know, I suppose I will have to give the judge some credit here for understanding the importance of the issues regarding the missing legal documents. And just look at how the parents' lawyer, Shaytan Elahi, popped his cork and was pretty irrational/absurd in his accusations against the defense team.

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Flu Fears Demand We Cancel Cinco de Mayo

With the number of Swine Flu cases growing fast and fears of a pandemic dominating the news, many Americans are calling for the nation’s southern border to be sealed to stem the flow of individuals — legal and illegal immigrants — from Mexico and beyond who might be infected with the new flu “cocktail.” I suggest we take matters one step further and cancel all Cinco de Mayo activities next week.

Click here to learn more about this bold suggestion.

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

SADDAM'S SPIES

Excerpt from today's local-news section of the Washington Post:
Man Admits to Secret Work for Iraq's Hussein
Md. Restaurateur, Identified in Captured Documents, Helped Intelligence Service Beginning in 1980s


A 67-year-old Iraqi who has been living in the United States since the 1980s pleaded guilty to a federal conspiracy charge yesterday and admitted that he secretly served for more than a decade as an agent of the regime of Saddam Hussein.

Saubhe Jassim Al-Dellemy, who came to the United States as a student and became a permanent resident in 2000, was identified as an agent through documents recovered after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, prosecutors said. The recovery of such records has led to charges against at least a dozen Iraqi agents, according to the Justice Department.

Given the code name "Adam," Dellemy provided information to Iraq and its intelligence agency about the identities and activities of people and groups opposed to Hussein and his government, according to a factual summary that accompanied his plea agreement.

...Dellemy used the restaurant's proximity to the NSA to "gather information" about the U.S. government, the documents say.

[...]

Dellemy's work in the United States began two decades ago....
All those years Dellemy has been living in the United States, and for what? To enjoy the freedoms here? Only so far as those freedoms allowed him to subvert the United States.

This story does make one wonder how many more spies are among us, spies having come in as students and staying to do something else entirely.

And I'm willing to bet that Dellemy's clientele at the restaurant he ran thought he was a wonderful guy, too.

Sunday, November 16, 2008

FEDS ADMIT FRAUD WITH THE REFUGEE PROGRAM

From this source:
A fact sheet released this week from the U.S. State Department reported widespread fraud in the refugee program that has brought tens of thousands of people from Somalia and other African nations to the United States.

The reported fraud spurred the State Department to suspend a humanitarian program in August which was supposed to reunite African "anchor" refugees already in the states with their family members who are still overseas.

DNA testing conducted earlier this year by the government to verify blood ties between anchor refugees and their supposed family members revealed that fewer than 20 percent of those checked could confirm their biological relationships, the fact sheet stated....

Read the rest here.

The last sentence from the above excerpt means that over 80% of the cases checked involved fraud. Over 80%!

Thanks to Refugee Resettlement Watch for alerting me to the above story.

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

NYTIMES: TOUGHER ANTI-ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT STANCE WORKING

NYTIMES:
... the numbers of immigrants who said they were considering going back to live in their home countries increased notably.

Among immigrants who have been here less than five years, 49 percent said they were thinking of returning home, while only 41 percent said they planned to remain in the United States.

Over all, just under one-third of the immigrants said they were thinking of leaving this country. In 2001, the last time a similar survey asked a comparable question, about 20 percent of all the immigrants interviewed said they were thinking of going home.
THEN THERE'S THIS:
More than three million Latin American immigrants in the United States, responding to the economic downturn and new uncertainties about their future, have stopped sending money home to their families in the last two years, according to a survey released on Wednesday by the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington.

Only 50 percent of some 18.9 million Latino immigrants in this country now send money regularly to relatives in their home countries, compared with 73 percent two years ago, the survey found.
  • THEY ARE GETTING THE MESSAGE!
  • I WISH THE POLITICANS WOULD!
  • LET THE LEGAL IMMIGRANTS WHO WANT TO STAY REMAIN HERE.
  • THE ILLEGAL ONES SHOULD GO HOME.

Saturday, April 19, 2008

DEADBEAT DAD A VICTIM OF IMMIGRATION LAW ENFORCEMENT

Almost every day, the Washington Post publishes a sob story about illegal immigrants. This one is a doozie:
The way Jaime R. Villagran tells it, to avoid going to jail, he would have had to break one law to obey another.

The Guatemalan native acknowledged that he owed more than $11,000 in child support when he appeared last month in Fairfax County Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court. But to pay it, Villagran told the judge, he would have to work illegally because he was awaiting permanent residency and work authorization from the U.S. government. He refused to do that.
The WaPo article goes on to paint Villagran as an honorable man, a victim of "the system," including this portion of the article:
With the immigration debate at a roar nationally, Villagran's case illustrates a moral and legal quandary. Locally, groups that oppose illegal immigration want the government to crack down on those in the country illegally and to punish employers who hire them. But many immigrants live in a complicated state of limbo. Physically but not legally in the United States, they are bound by federal and local laws, even when the two collide.

"You try to do the right thing, and it ends up being the wrong thing," Villagran said
.
In almost every story about any criminal, one can find something worthy of sympathy, I suppose. But do "a quandary" and "a paradox" excuse evasion of the law? In the many human-interest stories in the mainstream media, yes.

The victimology mindset, but one aspect of political correctness, pervades all of Western society. Unfortunately, this agenda on the part of the media meets with a lot of success. All kinds of excuses are now viewed as logical and acceptable, in a sort of extended application of extenuating circumstances. Such thinking amounts to perpetual adolescence--not a viable way to build a society.

Thursday, March 06, 2008

KEEPING THE MONEY HERE

Item in the March 6, 2008 edition of the Washington Post:
Remittances Drop as U.S. Jobs Slow

Mexicans working abroad, mostly in the United States, reduced money transfers to their families at home at a record pace in January as a U.S. housing slump squeezed construction employment.

Remittances, the second-biggest source of dollar flows into Mexico after oil receipts, fell 5.9 percent in January compared with January 2007, to $1.65 billion, Mexico's central bank said. It was the biggest drop since Banco de Mexico began records in 1995.
Our government wouldn't put a stop to such money transfers. Our government wouldn't track those strip-mall storefronts executing the transfers to see how many illegal invaders were using the facilities to drain the U.S. economy. Even local governments would not enforce zoning regulations, thereby allowing 20+ immigrants to live in a single-family home. But economic reality has caused a slowdown in propping up the economy of Mexico.

Think of it as the silver lining to the cloud of the economic downturn in the construction industry.

Sunday, February 10, 2008

MUSLIM INBREEDING

On August 25, 2007, here at The Astute Bloggers, Reliapundit posted information about Muslim inbreeding. The warnings as to the dangers of such inbreeding were clear in that posting and backed up by scientific data!

Now (Too late?) the UK is issuing an official warning about Muslim inbreeding. According to this February 10, 2008 article in the Times Online,

A government minister has warned that inbreeding among immigrants is causing a surge in birth defects - comments likely to spark a new row over the place of Muslims in British society.

Phil Woolas, an environment minister, said the culture of arranged marriages between first cousins was the “elephant in the room”. Woolas, a former race relations minister, said: “If you have a child with your cousin the likelihood is there’ll be a genetic problem.”

The minister, whose views were supported by medical experts this weekend, said: “The issue we need to debate is first cousin marriages, whereby a lot of arranged marriages are with first cousins, and that produces lots of genetic problems in terms of disability [in children].”

Woolas emphasised the practice did not extend to all Muslim communities but was confined mainly to families originating from rural Pakistan. However, up to half of all marriages within these communities are estimated to involve first cousins.

Medical research suggests that while British Pakistanis are responsible for 3% of all births, they account for one in three British children born with genetic illnesses....
I have some firsthand knowledge of the dangers of inbreeding. The maternal side of my family hails from East Tennessee, an area of the United States with a high percentage of inbreeding since the area was settled. When my mother was growing up, she saw evidence every day of the dangers of inbreeding. To the credit of my mother's family for many generations, members traveled to find their spouses, so as to avoid the results of first cousin to first cousin breeding. Spouses from the outside were not as easily acceptable by the hillbilly clans, but the result was not one since instance of genetic defect in the family!

Outside of my family, of course, I've seen for myself the offspring of such close inbreeding. Case in point, one of my mother's brilliant teachers had two severely retarded brothers, for whom that teacher had to care for her entire life. "The Boys," her older brothers and her only siblings, lived in a cabin next to her house in a small town in East Tennessee. Miss H managed to outlive "The Boys." Barely. And she was smart enough not to produce offspring herself. She knew the scientific data! She also knew the burden of bearing bad genes.

Today many Western societies, even that backwoods area of the East Tennesse hills from which my mother's family hailed, have legislation preventing first cousin to first cousin inbreeding. I don't know about the UK's legislation in that regard. After all, the "blueblood" idea still prevails in the upper echelons of British society.

Story after story out of the British press indicates that financial burden on the UK's national health care system is being increased by all sorts of causes, too many of them related to the plethora of Muslim immigrants, who jump right onto the rolls of free healthcare. The NHS is going to have a difficult time supporting one in three children with genetic defects--preventable genetic defects.

We have a lot of Muslim Pakistani immigrants here in the United States. How many of THEM are practicing the same inbreeding?

RELIAPUNDIT ADDS: GREAT POST AOW: GLAD WE'RE STAYING UP ON THIS ISSUE - WHICH I HAVE BLOGGED ON MANY TIMES - FIRST HERE - WAY BACK ON 8/18/2005 - YEAH, THREE (3) YEARS AGO!):
ARAB MUSLIMS AND ENDOGAMOUS MATRIMONY
The Arabs prefer endogamous matrimony -- that's marriage with first cousins or second cousins. (In fact, refusal to marry cousins (or regret at having done so) is one common reason that many Arab Muslim women become victims of "honor killing.")

In most societies - thoughout all of human history, most people think that the "in-law" relationship is the most troublesome in their lives; (it's one of the most popular and enduring sources of humor; America's most popular TV comedy in decades - EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND - was based on it). WELL: Because of the preference and prevalence of endogamous matrimony many Arabs are so inter-married that NOT ONLY are they everybody's in-laws,
every Arab is his own in-law! No wonder they're so effin' nuts! Heh!


Permalink - Posted by Reliapundit @ 10:51 AM
MORE HERE AND HERE.

Sunday, January 20, 2008

I know what you did last summer, John McCain

Feel free to steal these particular DVDs from any store. John McCain doesn't seem to picky about the enforcement of various laws.

By the way, how's that 700 miles of fence coming?

Poster idea: Reliapundit

Saturday, January 19, 2008

HEY MCCAIN: WE KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER - (A REMINDER FOR SOUTH CAROLINIANS:)


DON'T GIVE HIM THE CHANCE. DON'T VOTE FOR MCCAIN.